English-Danish translations for connotation

• bibetydning
• konnotation
  Det engelske ord "human rights" har ikke kønsbestemt konnotation som på fransk. The phrase "human rights" in English does not have a gender specific connotation in same way as in French.
  Selv om jeg i princippet er enig med min præsident, har udtrykket også positive konnotationer vedrørende innovation og parathed til reformer. Although I agree in principle with my President, the term has a positive connotation as well, involving innovation and readiness for reforms.
  Men andre steder - og i alt fald i Nederlandene - knytter der sig ganske andre konnotationer til ordet "forfatning". Ordet har en anden betydning. Elsewhere, however - in the Netherlands at any rate - the word 'constitution' has a totally different connotation or meaning still.
• medbetydning
• understregning

Definition of connotation

• A meaning of a word or phrase that is suggested or implied, as opposed to a denotation, or literal meaning. A characteristic of words or phrases, or of the contexts that words and phrases are used in
• The attribute or aggregate of attributes connoted by a term, contrasted with

Examples

• The connotations of the phrase "you are a dog" are that you are physically unattractive or morally reprehensible, not that you are a canine.
• The two expressions "the morning star" and "the evening star" have different connotations but the same denotation (i.e. the planet Venus).

Related words

• connote
• connoted
• connotative
• connotatively